Music has been inextricably linked to Vienna for centuries. It is the mecca that gave birth to the musical geniuses Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Johann Strauss. Vienna's long musical heritage continues to this day. The world-famous Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Children's Choir are always applauded by packed audiences on their world tours. The Vienna Conservatory of Music continues to produce musicians who stand out in the international music scene. In addition, Vienna's vibrant and contemporary music scene and venues attract young people. If you like music, Vienna is a place you won't forget. Music is almost a daily occurrence in Vienna. The elegant waltzes can be heard all the time while strolling around. On summer evenings, open-air concerts are held in the parks, where the melodious sound of music is mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants, and reverberates in the evening breeze. Many families in Vienna have a tradition of chamber music, especially when the whole family is happy, it is always played, and the beautiful melody spreads to the streets and alleys. More interestingly, in the holding of assemblies, celebrations and even governmental deliberations, before and after the meeting to play a piece of classical music, which has become almost customary.
The name of Vienna has always been associated with music. Many musical masters, such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Johann Strauss and his son, Griuk and Brahms, spent many years of their musical careers here. Haydn's Emperor Quartet, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Beethoven's Symphony of Fate, Symphony of the Fields, Moonlight Sonata, Heroic Symphony, Schubert's Swan Song, Winterreise, Johann Strauss's The Blue Danube, Tales of the Vienna Woods, and other famous pieces of music were all born here. Their statues stand in many parks and squares, and many streets, auditoriums and conference halls are named after these musicians. The homes and graves of the musicians are visited and honored all year round. Today, Vienna has the world's most luxurious State Opera House, the famous Music Hall and the first-class level of symphony orchestra.
Vienna's classical music is world-famous and has contributed countless composers over the centuries who still influence and inspire contemporary musicians.
Vienna was home to Schoenberg, Webern and Berg, the leading figures of the Viennese neo-classical school. Others born in Vienna include Schubert, Johann Strauss Sr, Johann Strauss Jr, Lerner, K?eneck, and many others. Countless musicians have studied, lived and worked in Vienna, including the three outstanding representatives of the Viennese Classical School, Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, as well as Liszt, Lehár, Bruckner, Mahler, Gluck, Brahms, Vivaldi and many others. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Johann Strauss Sr, Johann Strauss Jr, Rainer, Bruckner, Mahler, Gluck, Brahms, Vivaldi, etc. lie buried in Vienna.
The Vienna New Year's Concert is held annually on January 1 by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the Golden Hall and broadcast live to the world, the Vienna Opera Ball is the culmination of the Viennese Carnival every year, and others, such as the Viennese Waltz, the Vienna Boys' Choir, etc., and Vienna's many Opera Houses and Theaters together are known throughout the world.
The Golden Hall is the oldest and most modern concert hall in Vienna. It is the legal venue for the annual "Vienna New Year's Concert", which has been held here since 1939 on January 1 every year and was interrupted by the war, but resumed in 1959, and is now the venue for the "Vienna New Year's Concert".
It is a beautiful shape, color harmony, known as the "World Opera Center", which itself is a perfect work of art. The most unique design is the mobile stage, 46 meters deep, with several layers of platforms, can be raised, lowered or rotated at will. The music pool can accommodate an orchestra of 110 people. The stage has a total area of 1500 square meters and is equipped with modern lighting. The auditorium is located in the center of the theater, ****6 floors, with a capacity of 2200 people.
The Golden Hall was built in 1867 and completed in 1869. It is an Italian Renaissance-style building. The outer walls are yellow and red, and many statues of the goddess of music are erected on the roof, which is ancient and chic. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra gave at least 12 concerts here every quarter, and on January 6, 1870, the first performance was held in the Concertgebouw's Golden Hall, where the famous musician Brahms was in charge of organizing the concerts from 1872 to 1875, and where the Vienna Symphony Orchestra gave the first concert in the Golden Hall. The Concertgebouw belongs to the Austrian Society of Friends of Music, which has a membership of more than 7,000 and is said to be the oldest and most numerous musical organization in the world.
The Vienna New Year's Concert is world-famous, and the 1993 New Year's Concert was broadcast live on TV satellite in more than 30 countries and regions, with more than 1 billion viewers. The hall has a collection of museums, museums are divided into two rooms. One is an exhibition, regularly held exhibitions of collectibles for people to visit. One is an archive room, one side of the shelves filled with a large number of generations of handwritten, woodcut, lead-printed music books and sheet music; on the other side of a row of iron boxes, hidden music masters of music manuscripts, letters and other handwritten, among them are Mozart's manuscripts: The Last Symphony, Schubert's manuscripts: Unfinished Symphony, and so on. In the center of the room is a long row of tables for researchers to consult the materials. The archive room was originally Brahms's office, and before he died, he repeatedly instructed that he would donate all of the thousands of music books and scores he treasured to the archive.
The splendid architectural style and magnificent acoustics make it worthy of the name Golden. During the televised New Year's concert every year, music lovers from all over the world can listen to the music and at the same time get a glimpse of the "Golden Hall". Since the day of the hall's inauguration, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra has made its home here. The "Golden Hall" and the Vienna Philharmonic sound complement each other, "the world's first orchestra" and "the world's leading concert hall".
Compared to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and New York's Carnegie Hall, this "rectangular shoebox" is a bit long and narrow. However, its sound flows exceptionally well. The balance between strings and woodwinds, and woodwinds and brass, is ingenious. This is why the annual New Year's Eve concert is such an unforgettable experience for music lovers all over the world.